Tag: Safaricom

An Airbus SE unit developing high altitude, solar powered drones that offer communications services said it plans to build its ...

Safaricom has named Brian Wamatu as acting director for financial services of the Kenyan operator’s mobile payment platform M-Pesa, after Ronald Webb stepped down following ...

British telco Vodafone is transferring a 35% stake of its Kenyan operator Safaricom to its African subsidiary Vodacom Group for an estimated R34.6bn (US$2.62bn). Analysts said that while the ...

Econet Wireless-owned pan-African fibre and satellite broadband provider Liquid Telecom Kenya has hired former Airtel Kenya MD Adil Youssefi to become the operator’s CEO. Youssefi ...

Mobile operator Telkom Kenya has named Sundararaman Pattabiraman as its new CFO, succeeding François Bresson. He joins from rival Safaricom, which is partly owned ...

The Kenyan Communications Authority has reportedly invited leading mobile operators Safaricom, Airtel and Telkom Kenya to participate in the first phase of its KSh1.5bn (US$14.8m) Universal ...

India’s Bharti Airtel (BSE: BHARTIARTL) has agreed to acquire mobile payments provider YTS Solutions and appointed its co-founder and managing ...

French incumbent Orange has concluded that it has lost control over Telkom Kenya, in which it holds a 70% stake. ...

Telecoms giant Vodafone has named Sunil Sood as the new CEO of its Indian subsidiary from 1 April. Sood, currently ...

Talks between Orange and Vietnam’s Viettel for a sale of the French group’s 70% stake in Telkom Kenya have collapsed, ...